page_title: Tone Dale House
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Tone Dale House / History
caption_attribution_description: Thomas &amp; Sarah Fox of Tone Dale House, Wellington, Somerset - founder of Fox Brothers &amp; Co.
context_page_description: Tone Dale House is a Grade II listed country house built in 1801 by Thomas Fox in Wellington, Somerset, England. Wellington lies 7 miles west of Taunton in the vale of Taunton Deane, 1 mile from the Devon border. Tone Dale House, also known as House of Fox, offers views of Somerset with the Quantock hills to the North, and Blackdown Hills to the south.
context_section_description: In 1786, Thomas Fox the son of Edward Fox became a partner in the family's long established textile manufacturing business Fox Brothers in Wellington, Somerset at Tonedale Mills and Coldharbour Mill Working Wool Museum, Uffculme, Devon. "It was the practice...for many well-to-do manufacturers and merchants to build fine houses in the country, becoming country gentlemen themselves, their ladies priding themselves on their idleness." Thomas Fox and his wife Sarah, however, built their Palladian Villa house from 1801 beside their woollen mill.
caption: Thomas and Sarah Fox
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